This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAcknowledging that their voice had been missing, the Washington region’s faith community stood front and center Sunday as thousands of protesters again converged in the nation’s capital in the 10th straight day of protests against racism and police brutality.After Saturday’s demonstration in the District drew more than 10,000 participants — the biggest crowd since protests in the city began May 29 — Sunday brought still more peaceful mass gatherings, underscored by the presence of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) marching...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAcknowledging that their voice had been missing, the Washington region’s faith community stood front and center Sunday as thousands of protesters again converged in the nation’s capital in the 10th straight day of protests against racism and police brutality.After Saturday’s demonstration in the District drew more than 10,000 participants — the biggest crowd since protests in the city began May 29 — Sunday brought still more peaceful mass gatherings, underscored by the presence of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) marching...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe third day of protests in the nation’s capital over George Floyd’s death began with bent knees, raised fists and pleas that this night, unlike the last, would remain peaceful. And in those first moments on Sunday, the more than 1,000 people who marched to Lafayette Square across from the White House listened.Then came darkness, and with it, another night of mayhem. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe third day of protests in the nation’s capital over George Floyd’s death began with bent knees, raised fists and pleas that this night, unlike the last, would remain peaceful. And in those first moments on Sunday, the more than 1,000 people who marched to Lafayette Square across from the White House listened.Then came darkness, and with it, another night of mayhem. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Most of Virginia will enter a second phase of reopening from the prolonged coronavirus shutdown on Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam said, citing steady declines in the number of covid-19 hospitalizations and rates of people testing positive since he began lifting shutdown restrictions nearly three weeks ago.Both Northern Virginia and the city of Richmond, which were hit harder by...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Most of Virginia will enter a second phase of reopening from the prolonged coronavirus shutdown on Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam said, citing steady declines in the number of covid-19 hospitalizations and rates of people testing positive since he began lifting shutdown restrictions nearly three weeks ago.Both Northern Virginia and the city of Richmond, which were hit harder by...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareVoters stood in line for up to four hours in the Northern Virginia suburbs on Friday to cast ballots in a bitterly contested presidential election, turning out in force on the first day of early voting to take advantage of a new state law making it easier to cast absentee ballots.In heavily Democratic Fairfax County, the state’s largest jurisdiction, the wait had stretched to four hours — and hundreds of voters — by midday, officials said.Although early voting will continue thorough Oct. 31, with additional locations...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareVoters stood in line for up to four hours in the Northern Virginia suburbs on Friday to cast ballots in a bitterly contested presidential election, turning out in force on the first day of early voting to take advantage of a new state law making it easier to cast absentee ballots.In heavily Democratic Fairfax County, the state’s largest jurisdiction, the wait had stretched to four hours — and hundreds of voters — by midday, officials said.Although early voting will continue thorough Oct. 31, with additional locations...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareVirginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the state’s two U.S. senators are urging President Trump to send the country’s top public health agency to respond to a coronavirus outbreak inside a privately owned immigrant detention center in the town of Farmville that immigrant advocates have called “a tinderbox” of infection.The outbreak at the Farmville Detention Center is the largest at any such facility in the country, with 262 undocumented immigrants there being monitored after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to .A...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareVirginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the state’s two U.S. senators are urging President Trump to send the country’s top public health agency to respond to a coronavirus outbreak inside a privately owned immigrant detention center in the town of Farmville that immigrant advocates have called “a tinderbox” of infection.The outbreak at the Farmville Detention Center is the largest at any such facility in the country, with 262 undocumented immigrants there being monitored after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to .A...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe graph lines are climbing again.Cases of the novel coronavirus after more than a month of declines and plateaus, prompting fears of a surge similar to what is happening elsewhere in the country.Washington-area officials are and taking action: The District expanded its and ordered people coming from hot spots for 14 days, Virginia stepped up enforcement, Baltimore , and Anne Arundel County for gatherings.Experts agree that the numbers are alarming, and they say governments would be wise to shut down bars, stop indoor...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe graph lines are climbing again.Cases of the novel coronavirus after more than a month of declines and plateaus, prompting fears of a surge similar to what is happening elsewhere in the country.Washington-area officials are and taking action: The District expanded its and ordered people coming from hot spots for 14 days, Virginia stepped up enforcement, Baltimore , and Anne Arundel County for gatherings.Experts agree that the numbers are alarming, and they say governments would be wise to shut down bars, stop indoor...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration flew immigrant detainees to Virginia this summer to facilitate the rapid deployment of Homeland Security tactical teams to quell protests in Washington, circumventing restrictions on the use of charter flights for employee travel, according to a current and a former U.S. official.After the transfer, dozens of the new arrivals tested positive for the novel coronavirus, fueling , immigration jail that infected more than 300 inmates, one of whom died.U.S....…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration flew immigrant detainees to Virginia this summer to facilitate the rapid deployment of Homeland Security tactical teams to quell protests in Washington, circumventing restrictions on the use of charter flights for employee travel, according to a current and a former U.S. official.After the transfer, dozens of the new arrivals tested positive for the novel coronavirus, fueling , immigration jail that infected more than 300 inmates, one of whom died.U.S....WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareRICHMOND — The Virginia General Assembly agreed Wednesday to make it legal for adults to of marijuana on July 1, nearly three years sooner than had been approved by the legislature in February.Both the Senate and House of Delegates approved the earlier date as requested by Gov. Ralph Northam (D) during a one-day reconvened session called for tying up a series of legislative loose ends.The Senate deadlocked 20 to 20 on the marijuana change, with Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) casting the deciding vote in favor. The House...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareRICHMOND — The Virginia General Assembly agreed Wednesday to make it legal for adults to of marijuana on July 1, nearly three years sooner than had been approved by the legislature in February.Both the Senate and House of Delegates approved the earlier date as requested by Gov. Ralph Northam (D) during a one-day reconvened session called for tying up a series of legislative loose ends.The Senate deadlocked 20 to 20 on the marijuana change, with Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) casting the deciding vote in favor. The House...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA former Trump appointee to the Pentagon has announced his intention to run for Virginia governor, adding to an increasingly crowded field of Republicans seeking their party’s nomination.Sergio de la Peña, a retired Army colonel who helped oversee military operations in the Western Hemisphere for the Trump administration, announced his bid for the GOP nomination on social media on Monday.In a campaign video, de la Peña, 65, describes emigrating from Mexico as a child, graduating from the University of Iowa through the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareA former Trump appointee to the Pentagon has announced his intention to run for Virginia governor, adding to an increasingly crowded field of Republicans seeking their party’s nomination.Sergio de la Peña, a retired Army colonel who helped oversee military operations in the Western Hemisphere for the Trump administration, announced his bid for the GOP nomination on social media on Monday.In a campaign video, de la Peña, 65, describes emigrating from Mexico as a child, graduating from the University of Iowa through the...WW…